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Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Myrrh - Vintage pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Myrrh - Antique Pharmacy Bottle - Apothecary Jar

€85.00

Myrrh

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There is still some product left inside

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Description

Myrrh

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar. 19th-century mouth-blown glass

It comes from the old cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s!

There is still some product left inside

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling.

Myrrh was one of the key ingredients in the Elixir of Life produced in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pharmacists would use pieces of myrrh, which they would macerate with aloe, saffron and rhubarb. It was the panacea of the time for ‘purifying the blood’. It was an antiseptic and stimulant

Height: 24cm - Diameter: 10cm